时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:澳洲ABC新闻快递2011年


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There have been dramatic scenes in London overnight with riots extending into a third day. The area of Croydon in the city's south was cordoned 1 off as a building there was set alight. The Prime Minister David Cameron is reportedly boarding a plane to return to the UK from his holiday to deal with what apparently 2 is an escalating 3 crisis there.


The United Nations says it's airlifted aid to the Somali capital Mogadishu for the first time in five years. More than 100,000 Somalis have fled to Mogadishu to escape violence in the last two months, and the country is in the grip of a serious famine. The militant 4 Islamist group al-Shabab has abandoned its posts in the capital. The US will allocate 5 another $100 million in aid to Somalia.


The Gillard Government's plans to send asylum 6 seekers to Malaysia are officially on hold this morning, but the first refugees to come to Australia as part of a deal with Malaysia will arrive this week. The High Court yesterday extended an injunction stopping the Government from sending asylum seekers to Malaysia for at least another fortnight. The Government has signalled it will try to bring forward at a High Court hearing.


Australians will be asked about their job, income, religion and family as they fill out census 7 forms tonight. Same-sex couples who've married overseas will have their unions counted for the first time. People who don't submit the form will be fined, but they'll receive several warnings before the September deadline. Those who haven't received a form can still order one online today.



1 cordoned
v.封锁,用警戒线围住( cordon的过去式 )
  • Police cordoned off the area until the bomb was defused. 警方封锁了这个地区直到炸弹被拆除为止。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Police cordoned off the road and diverted commuter traffic. 警察封锁了道路并分流交通。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
3 escalating
v.(使)逐步升级( escalate的现在分词 );(使)逐步扩大;(使)更高;(使)更大
  • The cost of living is escalating. 生活费用在迅速上涨。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The cost of living is escalating in the country. 这个国家的生活费用在上涨。 来自辞典例句
4 militant
adj.激进的,好斗的;n.激进分子,斗士
  • Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
  • He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
5 allocate
vt.分配,分派;把…拨给;把…划归
  • You must allocate the money carefully.你们必须谨慎地分配钱。
  • They will allocate fund for housing.他们将拨出经费建房。
6 asylum
n.避难所,庇护所,避难
  • The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
  • Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。
7 census
n.(官方的)人口调查,人口普查
  • A census of population is taken every ten years.人口普查每10年进行一次。
  • The census is taken one time every four years in our country.我国每四年一次人口普查。
学英语单词
affected laugh
after-christmas
aggregate breaking force
aircraft engine parts
Ammonia-nitre
application library
asmalar
Bou Arada
Build Up Period SA
Cabolafuente
caracore
CC.G
cephalopodes
cervical inspection
charcoal saturation time
cheatable
computer language
conditional train
cooling water pond
coronal heating
course course
crankshaft starting claw
criminal lunatic
cryoglobulinemias
deinococcus ficus
displacement phase transition
election meeting
endosperm jacket
Enslin apparatus
frame synchronizing pattern
fuel tank bay
give-up trade
glossophagine
ground (gnd)
Handewitt
have the scalp of sb.
Hayesenite
industrial combinations
infarcing
island-dweller
jewkes
keyboard send/receive machine
Kikamba
krasnov
lefter
Lincoln Sea
local storm
lounge suite
main steamline isolation
marginal deposit for security
mechanical multiplication
method of semantic differential
millennium cult
Mirvan
moisture content meter
mollin
Moriana
multiple asset depreciation accounting
multistage queue
non-recurring sources of income
nonamerican
notelets
nurjannah
Oestergon
oestrus detection
ophthalmotonometry
outstanding case
pl/sql
PLAFVU
plain turkey
pressed down
prolapse of cord
proteges
pull-through winding
race suicide
re-importation
real live
reference ship
reservoir regulation computation for irrigation
rostralia
Rubiteucris
self priming
shafiq
she'll be apples
sheer at stern post
shinigami
shut someone's trap
similarity parameters
snow-blower
starting torque
surgical diseases
ten-years-old
tensor products
terrestrial communication network
test-fly
tine test
trade payables
unsorrowful
vegetative leaf
vent for surplus theory
vitalis
wattap